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August / September Lake Murray Fishing Forecast

Striped Bass – My Lake Murray fishing customers have experienced good success this past month catching stripers in the ‘Big Pool’ area of the lake. The bite has been good from daylight to about 9:30am on downrods fished from 60’ to 90’ deep in around 100’ feet of water. Trolling leadcore lines and downriggers have produced throughout the rest of the day. The stripers will remain in their summer pattern through the middle of September. Stripers will begin to school on top early and late in the day as the water cools in September. Fish will be able to be taken shallower during this transition using freelines and plannerboards pulled off points near deep water.

Black Bass – Lake Murray fishing for bass has been good recently fishing topwaters early and late in the day. Carolina rigged worms and deep diving crankbaits have been successful off main lake points later in the day. As the water cools in September, the black bass will be able to be caught shallower with spinnerbaits and shallow running crankbaits in the creek channels. Be sure to keep a rod ready as schooling activity can erupt at anytime during this time of the year. 

Bream – The bream fishing has been very good lately and should continue for the next couple of months fishing redworms and crickets in 1 to 10 feet of water. If you like fishing with ultralite equipment, casting beetle spins in white with red dot colors and yellow with black stripes and crickets is always a good way get a limit of panfish. 

Crappie – The crappie fishing has been good lately using jigs and small tuffies trolling in creek runs and fishing brush piles in 10 to 20 foot of water. The action for this popular fish should also improve as the water cools near the end of September. 

Catfish – The catfishing will continue to be productive fishing cut herring and nightcrawlers on bottom.

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